#Any tips for my companies youtube channel (and social media's in general)

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coarse saffron
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I checked your website, and I couldn't find video content.
⅕ of my phone screen was covered with bitcoin popups

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I checked your YouTube channel, and I found no video content relating to portfolio

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Website

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How am I to trust you as a filmmaker
If you don't show us anything you've made

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If it's intended as a podcast,
Why is it not labeled as such?

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Oh, I found a video of you via clicking "The candle shop is now open" in your blog post

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Which relates to a blog oost that has nothing to do with your video company?!

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The first thing I see on your channel:
"Film director downs whole squad in Fortnite"

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Real question,
Is that what your company wants to be known for?

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Update:
I see, so some videos lead to podcast, and others lead to videos.
They all have the same thumbnails so I can't tell them apart
also, starting a 10 minute podcast with 2 full minutes of apologizing it's got no video, about content coming up and about selling yourself with info unrelated to the video is not a good way to get returning viewers (5x Ways to Raise MONEY As A New Filmmaker)

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Im just gonna go ahead and question everything.

Why this framing, why is the focus set on the tree. Why not choose a more controlled environment where you can show off skills in framing, lighting, audio etc.

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It'll take me a bit to analyse the subjects, but first impressions:

Your channel is hard to navigate, I never know what I'm gonna get

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  • There's no reels
  • I Haven't found a single frame of your company's work yet
  • Your framing doesn't impose trust (yet)
  • The top videos on your channel are unrelated to filmmaking
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  • your thumbnails are a gamble for the viewer and don't impose trust in you as a filmmaker
  • Logo intro lasts way too long (20 seconds? really?!) and is loud
  • get your viewerbase up before soliciting for likes and subs, or ask this at a later part in video
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On your website: (The first thing I'd check as a business)

  • it takes me clicking away two popup adds on ANY PAGE to even get to the navigation menu (phone)
  • it shows me so many things and subjects unrelated to your core business (Unless your core business is Ko-fee, discord and a candle shop)
  • ZERO VIDEO CONTENT/pictures on portfolio aside from WiP posters (aside from posting about YouTube in your blogs)
  • Home page is the sixth item on the menu?!?!
  • I would not be able to tell it's a website about film from the home page by just skimming. there's nothing that screams filmmaking on the blog page nor the "Official App" page
    a non-filmmaking person wouldn't be able to tell from the Affiliates and deals page either. Nor would anyone from its existence on your website (is your core business being a YouTuber now?)
coarse saffron
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My tips for you:

  • Focus on your core business
  • Don't try to emulate the professionals in the YouTube space, be real
  • Show us the problems YOU face, is it Client stories? The way you do marketing? How do you get done what you do?
  • SHOW US YOUR WORK All I've found was a still of a lens and a three second clip of a little ducky (and I spent over half an hour)
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Quality sells
Give us quality over quantity
Spend some time on making the shots of yourself look the way you want to deliver to your clients
Potentially even better

Judging your own content:

  • Would someone recommend this content to other people? Why? Why not?
coarse saffron
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I hope I didn't come off as mean or insulting.
I don't know you, so I went for an as direct and to the point kinda approach.

Being able to talk about it is what can really drive it forwards to the next level